International Climate Change Agreements and National Policy

Author: Maia Tskhvaradze
Keywords: climate change, policy, international agreements
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International Climate Change Agreements and National Policy Maia Tskhvaradze maia.tskhvaradze@graduateinstitute.ch Department of Geography, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Iv.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, 0179, Tbilisi, I.Chavchavadze #3 In 1979, the first World Conference dedicated to climate, recognized climate change as a serious problem. This scientific gathering analyzed how the process could affect human activities. The conference was followed by a series of political processes, and as a result in 1992, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed in Rio de Janeiro. In 1997 within the framework of the Convention, the Kyoto Protocol was signed. The Protocol is an international treaty on the Climate Change Convention. Its main feature is that the protocol sets out the mandatory aims of cutting greenhouse gases for industrialized countries. Since the emissions of developing countries have exceeded the emissions of developed countries, international agenda stated about the need of new Agreement, according to which the developing countries would be obliged to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in their own countries. After the long negotiations, in December 2015 at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties, countries adopted the "Paris Agreement". Before adoption, the Parties (including Georgia) presented their "Intended Nationally Determined Contribution - INDC", which reflects the targets of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.